Quotes About Endurance

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.

I'm ready for five rounds and I know how to fight five rounds, when I have to rest, and when I can push the tempo.

Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.

Physical pain is temporary.

They don't seem to be getting tired, the way we thought. Maybe it'll have to be a race, and I hope we win. Some people sometimes think we won't, and maybe I believe them, but not for too long.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

Keep on truckin'.

they were still living out of the covered wagon in which they had first arrived almost a year ago.

losing it on the world. But even if the

I knew what we had was not over, we were not done and we did not know how to make our love end.

We die and everything goes on, the same as before.

Dying is hardest on the living.

It's been twenty years, Lieutenant. I've gone through it every day for twenty years. I'll get through these days the same way I got through those, one bad day at a time.

the walls were down, the only thing I could do was rebuild.

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he was "tougher than a two-dollar steak.

It could be so cruel, hope. But for twenty years it was all she'd had to hold on to, the only thing to push back the darkness that lingered on the periphery, searching for every opportunity to enshroud her.

Her muscles cramped and eventually seized. When

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